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The futures seems to be full of promise and excitement. Certainly at no time for nearly a millenium and a half has the opportunity for genuine theology been greater, since the ground has been cleared in the remarkable way of the old dualist and atomistic modes of thought that have plagued theology for centuries. It is, therefore, up to us as theologians to develop theology on its own proper ground in this scientific context, if only because this is the kind of life and culture, and the kind of theology that can support the message of the Gospel to mankind, as, in touch with the advances of nat

Some philosophical questions about space and time -- The Greek philosophers -- Time as moving according to number -- Plato -- Time a puzzle to Aristotle -- Plotinus expands on Aristotle -- Augustine and subjective time -- Is time real? -- Kant -- Temporality -- Fundamental to being -- Heidegger -- Eternity -- Insights from psychology and anthropology -- Hints about eternity -- Time standing still -- Jung and synchronicity -- Ontological importance of time -- Panikkar -- Is time linear or cyclic? -- Time and teleology -- Primal cultures and time -- What is science saying about spacetime? -- Time is relative from 3D to 4D -- Nature of spacetime a mystery -- Travel into future is possible -- There is no universal "now" -- Problem areas for theology -- Dominus Iesus -- Salvation and the liturgy -- Image of God -- Linear -- Time -- Liturgical problems -- Theologians -- Cause and effect -- Dualisms : God as a receptacle -- Spacetime & theology in dialogue -- The response : towards a contemporary theology of spacetime -- Time as an illusion -- Image of God -- Model 1: Time as an illusion : time is now -- Liturgical -- Time -- Kairic time -- Sacramentality and the patristic period -- Retro-active sacraments -- Postmodernism -- Application to spacetime -- Spatio-temporal constructions of humans -- Time as clockwork : a succession of events -- Time in the Bible -- Eschatological and apocalyptic time -- Creation -- Out of nothing? -- Christ-centered time -- Points of convergence -- Time as becoming -- Model 3: time as becoming -- Process theology -- Does God know beforehand? -- The God-world relationship -- Incarnational dimension -- Some weaknesses in process theology -- Time as a secondary construction -- Model 4: time as a secondary construction -- A theological response -- Incarnation -- Free or not? -- Process theology and free will -- A new concept : spacetime -- Trinitarian -- Incarnational -- Biblical -- Liturgical, and sacramental -- Inclusive of synchronicity -- Acceptance -- Of mystery of spacetime

The creation of a liberation theology within the contemporary UK is investigated. The question of whether a British liberation theology must be located within the context of the UK's material conditions is addressed, as is the issue of whether the conditions that create poverty can actually be localized to present-day British society. It is suggested that a British liberation theology must concern itself with analyzing how the UK has contributed to or complied with the oppression & exploitation of individuals living in Third World nations. It is subsequently argued that cultural factors, not economic or political determinants, should be at the forefront of a British liberation theology. After discussing the popularity of postmodernism in contemporary Northern nations, the notion of postmodernism is then identified as an obstruction to developing such a theological perspective. It is concluded that establishing a British liberation theology is dependent on the identification of an "ec-clesial" community base. J. W. Parker

"Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Famous for her account of the banality of evil, her wide-ranging work explored such themes as totalitarianism, the Holocaust, statelessness and human rights, revolutions and democratic movements, and the various challenges of modern technological society. Recent years have seen a growing appreciation of her complex relationship to theological sources, especially Augustine, the subject of her doctoral dissertation and a thinker with whom she contended throughout her life. This book explores how Arendt's critical and constructive engagements with theology inform her broader thought, as well as the lively debates her work is stirring in contemporary Christian theology on such topics as evil, tradition, love, political action, and the life of the mind. A unique interdisciplinary investigation bridging Arendt studies, political philosophy, and Christian theology, Hannah Arendt and Theology considers how the insights and provocations of this public intellectual can help set a constructive theological agenda for the twenty-first century."--Bloomsbury Publishing